Performance of ITBP guarding the sensitive Sino-India border has been "adversely affected" as ordnance factories did not supply necessary arms and ammunition to the force for upto to six years after taking advance payments, the CAG on Friday said.

An ITBP constable, accused of killing his senior and injuring another colleague in Mussoorie`s Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, surrendered to police here on Sunday, officials said.

At least 3500 pilgrims stranded at Gobind Dham in Uttarakhand have been safely evacuated and brought back either at Gobind Ghat (Joshi Math) with the co-operation and joint efforts of District Administration of Math, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and state team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Saturday assured immediate help to those affected by heavy rains in Uttarakhand as the state government dispatched a rescue team to oversee evacuation of pilgrims stranded at Hemkunt Sahib.

A special breed of sniffer dog, a member of 'Operation DOGA' sanitisation exercise, on Saturday detected an improvised bomb planted by security agencies near the venue of the International Yoga Day celebrations at Rajpath here as part of mock security drill.

Posted over 14,500 ft above the ground in Ladakh, the personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) go through all kinds of difficulties to safeguard India. To survive the extremely cold weather, these personnel avail yoga as their means to sustain.

In an attempt to strengthen its presence on the Sino-India border in Ladakh, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has sought deployment of additional 6,000 personnel along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the sector that has witnessed a series of transgressions by the Chinese army.

Four ITBP commandos, who repulsed an audacious terrorist attack on the Indian Consulate in Afghanistan's Herat province last year, have been accorded the President's Police Medal for Gallantry (PPMG) on the eve of the Republic Day here.

A special sniffer dog squad of ITBP has been brought in to the national capital to sanitise the locations which are on the itinerary of US President Barack Obama for his visit later this month to take part in the Republic Day celebrations.

The central government Tuesday gave CRPF Director General Prakash Mishra the additional charge of the post of director general, Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) with effect from Jan 1, an official statement said.